Word: multicolored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cardin included in his show a strapless black outfit with a satin belt, while Guy Laroche took off with a multicolor batwing evening dress. From Lanvin came a sheer-topped gown with delicate pastel embroidery, and from Courrèges, a skirt and blouse combination laden with ruffles. For most of high fashion's critics, clients, and trend watchers, the week's main feature was the Saint Laurent collection. Paris' No. 1 designer, who launched the costume revolution with his Russian, gypsy, Cossack fashions of 1976, had presaged a return to modernity with his ready-to-wear...
...light show featured a reflected geodosic sphere, assorted strobes, police car lights and a multicolor remote control spotlight that ranged around the set and the audience, looming 20 feet above the stage. Visual affects climaxed during the 18-minute version of the AM hit "Frankenstein" when Winter released a heavy smoke screen of CO2 gas that enveloped the stage and choked front row spectators...
Equipped with two separate systems of sensors, the experimental satellite "sees" its subject in three different colors: near infra-red (beyond the range of human vision), green and red. Transmitted separately back to earth, these colors can be combined to produce eerie multicolor photographs that are highly informative. ERTS owes its perceptive ability to the fact that every object, living or inanimate, emits, absorbs or reflects light in a highly characteristic way. Such spectral "signatures" are especially distinctive in infrared. ERTS, for instance, uses its infra-red sensors not only to identify crops in an area but also to tell...